On operational and optimal iconicity in Peirce's diagrammatology

Semiotica 2011 (186):395-419 (2011)
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Abstract

Two different concepts of iconicity compete in Peirce's diagrammatical logic. One is articulated in his general reflections on the role of diagrams in thought, in what could be termed his diagrammatology — the other is articulated in his construction of Existential Graphs as an iconic system for representing logic. One is operational and defines iconicity in terms of which information may be derived from a given diagram or diagram system — the other has stronger demands on iconicity, adding to the operational criterion a demand for as high a degree of similarity as possible and may be termed optimal iconicity. Peirce himself does not clearly distinguish these two iconicity notions, a fact that has caused some confusion. By isolating them, we get a clearer and more refined conceptual apparatus for analyzing iconic signs, from pictures to logic

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Diagrams as Centerpiece of a Peircean Epistemology.Frederik Stjernfelt - 2000 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (3):357 - 384.

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